Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX)An innovative and effective supply chain management solution

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What is Supplier Ethical Data Exchange?

As the largest collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data, SEDEX is an innovative and effective supply chain management solution, helps reduce risk, protect company reputation and improve supply chainpractices.  SEDEX audit (SMETA) can be initiated either by Buyer (A member) or Seller (B Member). Sedex offers a simple and effective way of managing ethical and responsible practices in supply chain.

Sedex Advance, a secure, online database which allows members to store, share and report on information on four key areas:

• Labour Standards

•Health & Safety

• The Environment

• Business Ethics

For buyers – Sedex offers an electronic system for collecting and analysing information on ethical and responsible business practices in their supply chain

SEDEX Associate Auditor Groups (AAGs) are SEDEX working groups made up of commercial auditing companies and NGOs that are significantly involved in ethical trade auditing, with active participation from SEDEX members. The purpose of the AAGs is to drive convergence in ethical trade/social auditing, based on and helping to shape best practice.

The AAGs work to:-

• Improve  best practice guidance on conducting social audits (SMETA)

• Develop and improve  standardized preferred audit report formats (SMETA)

• Develop agreed protocols on auditor training requirements and qualifications (available to members in the ‘Resources’ section of the SEDEX system)

• Establish project groups, where required

• Agree priorities and areas for system developments

Suppliers can enter their ethical information and choose to share it with multiple customerson Sedex

Buyers can view and manageethical information for all their suppliers in one

secure place

Benifits for Buyers and Suppliers

To ease the burden on suppliers facing multiple audits, questionnaires and certifications

To drive improvements in the ethical performance of global supply chains

SEDEX has two main aims

BSI group India Pvt. Ltd. is an AAG member of SEDEX and can conduct SMETA and upload the result to the Sedex database

visit at http://www.sedexglobal.com/ethical-audits/aag/

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SEDEXmembersspanover150countriesinmanyindustrysectors.Sinceitslaunchin2004,over26,000 organizations from around the world have chosen the SEDEX platform to manage their ethical supply chain data.

Reducing the number of audits

By submitting supply chain audit results to the database, SEDEX helps ensuring transparency and re-use of existing audit data. A manufacturer does not need to re-audit a company to qualify them as suppliers, but rather checks their status in theSEDEX database.

Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit

The Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) was developed by the Sedex Associate Auditor Group (AAG).The latest version of SMETA was launched on 28 November 2014. SMETA is designed to reduce duplication of effort in ethical trade auditing, benefitting retailers, consumer brands, and their suppliers. It was developed in response to member demand for an ethical audit report format that could more easily be shared. SMETA is not a code of conduct, a new meth-odology, or a certification process, but describes an audit procedure which is a compilation of good practice in ethical audit technique. The SMETA documents are designed to be used in conjunction with current established practices by experienced auditors to help them to conduct high quality audits that will be accepted by multiple retailers and brands.

BSI’s Offerings

Conducting SMETA Audit UploadtheSMETAreportonSEDEXPlatform

For suppliers – Sedex provides an efficient and cost effective way of sharing ethical information with multiple customers, helping cut down on unnecessary paperwork and saving time and money.

Suppliers complete oneself assessment questionnaire and can choose to share this with multiple customers on Sedex, along with any other relevant ethical information, such as audit reports and certifications.

The Sedex system is secure and confidential and suppliers have complete control over who can view their data.By allowing suppliers to share the same data with many customers, Sedex helps reduce the need for multiple audits, allowing both parties to concentrate on making real improvements.

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